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Hello folks. Quick question.... The other day, I took my daughter in her stroller up to Fox s Gap. I began walking up the one-lane road toward lambs

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, Jul 6, 2007

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Hello folks.

Quick question....

The other day, I took my daughter in her stroller up to Fox's Gap. I
began walking up the one-lane road toward lambs knoll....got maybe
about a mile and called it quits. Too steep for this out of shape guy
to be pushing a big stroller up hill in the heat (ok...I am a wuss).

I would like to explore this road, maybe even get up to Lambs Knoll
where the telecom towers are, but I noticed "no vehicles beyond this
point" signs. "No trespassing" signs are conspicuously absent, so I
interpret this as "don't drive here, but you are welcome to walk."

Does anyone have any experience in driving up this road (hassles,
problems), and is there anything up there worth seeing? Does it
terminate or go all the way to Crampton's Gap?

Thanks.
Steve Bockmiller

G E Mayers

Steve; I can not answer your question re Crampton s Gap and Lamb s Knoll Road, but IIRC the road does not go all the way towards Crampton s Gap. Yr. Obt. Svt.

Message 2 of 4
, Jul 9, 2007

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Steve;

I can not answer your question re Crampton's Gap and Lamb's Knoll
Road, but IIRC the road does not go all the way towards
Crampton's Gap.

Yr. Obt. Svt.
G E "Gerry" Mayers

To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even
on one's mother's side, is an introduction to any state in the
Union, a passport to any foreign country, and a benediction from
the Almighty God. --Anonymous

The other day, I took my daughter in her stroller up to Fox's
Gap. I
began walking up the one-lane road toward lambs knoll....got
maybe
about a mile and called it quits. Too steep for this out of
shape guy
to be pushing a big stroller up hill in the heat (ok...I am a
wuss).

I would like to explore this road, maybe even get up to Lambs
Knoll
where the telecom towers are, but I noticed "no vehicles beyond
this
point" signs. "No trespassing" signs are conspicuously absent,
so I
interpret this as "don't drive here, but you are welcome to
walk."

Does anyone have any experience in driving up this road (hassles,
problems), and is there anything up there worth seeing? Does it
terminate or go all the way to Crampton's Gap?

Thanks.
Steve Bockmiller

Joseph Pierro

Steve: In my experience, the owners are good about letting folks walk the property. As you noted, however, it s a one lane road (hence their ban on cars; they

Message 3 of 4
, Jul 9, 2007

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Steve:

In my experience, the owners are good about letting folks walk the property. As you noted, however, it's a one lane road (hence their ban on cars; they don't want someone going up it when they're trying to go down).

In my travels there, I haven't often seen the road in use, but I'm sure that the first time a CW buff drives it they'll encounter someone heading the other way down the road and thereby provoke the owners to tighten access to the property as a whole.

I can not answer your question re Crampton's Gap and Lamb's Knoll
Road, but IIRC the road does not go all the way towards
Crampton's Gap.

Yr. Obt. Svt.
G E "Gerry" Mayers

To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even
on one's mother's side, is an introduction to any state in the
Union, a passport to any foreign country, and a benediction from
the Almighty God. --Anonymous

The other day, I took my daughter in her stroller up to Fox's
Gap. I
began walking up the one-lane road toward lambs knoll....got
maybe
about a mile and called it quits. Too steep for this out of
shape guy
to be pushing a big stroller up hill in the heat (ok...I am a
wuss).

I would like to explore this road, maybe even get up to Lambs
Knoll
where the telecom towers are, but I noticed "no vehicles beyond
this
point" signs. "No trespassing" signs are conspicuously absent,
so I
interpret this as "don't drive here, but you are welcome to
walk."

Does anyone have any experience in driving up this road (hassles,
problems), and is there anything up there worth seeing? Does it
terminate or go all the way to Crampton's Gap?

Steve, It is an FAA site and the fellow who used to run it is an 8th Ohio Inf. nut, a good fellow. They don t mind walkers, but vehicles are a problem. If

Message 4 of 4
, Jul 9, 2007

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Steve,
It is an FAA site and the fellow who used to run it is an 8th Ohio Inf.
nut, a good fellow. They don't mind walkers, but vehicles are a
problem. If you call in advance they will notify their people and it is
OK. I do that if I take a motorcoach down there. I have not met the
new person running it. It sued to be a Cold War comm site, hence the
concrete silo for the anenae, but now they just talk to airplanes.

Thomas G. Clemens D.A.
Professor of History
Hagerstown Community College

The other day, I took my daughter in her stroller up to Fox's Gap. I
began walking up the one-lane road toward lambs knoll....got maybe
about a mile and called it quits. Too steep for this out of shape guy
to be pushing a big stroller up hill in the heat (ok...I am a wuss).

I would like to explore this road, maybe even get up to Lambs Knoll
where the telecom towers are, but I noticed "no vehicles beyond this
point" signs. "No trespassing" signs are conspicuously absent, so I
interpret this as "don't drive here, but you are welcome to walk."

Does anyone have any experience in driving up this road (hassles,
problems), and is there anything up there worth seeing? Does it
terminate or go all the way to Crampton's Gap?

Thanks.
Steve Bockmiller

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